to counter that one 1 star review

i wrote this to counter the 1 star review you posted on insta

Initial difficulty

I would give it a 4 star as of right now, however, as you are just starting I don’t want to damage your rating. I saw your youtube short on the game and i thought it looked really fun and well made and although I know it says a challenging game in the title, i feel like the first level is a little too difficult. In my own opinion I feel that if you made the first level easier it would hook players more than having it be more difficult as then the players could progress and motivate them to continue. Anyways I have never ever downloaded a game from a YouTube video but this seemed like a really well made one, good job!

Bats are cool I guess

This game is very challenging and fun at the same time though one time I was at the end and got sent back to the bottom of the level

Just a few small issues

I want to start by saying this is a great game, it’s tough to find games this good on mobile. The ads are very reasonable compared to other mobile games; the banner ads aren’t too obtrusive unless you accidentally click them and full screen ads seem to only be once every ~15 minutes (sometimes they’ll only be like 30 seconds apart though, not sure why). The basic mechanics are pretty fun and every level has its own unique mechanics, plus a boss. I just beat the final level and I had fun overall. However, I do have a few complaints: 1. There’s not enough safe ground. If you get hit, you’re falling a long way. I get that falling is the point of the game, but it’s a little excessive. Almost everything is a slope or something else that you can’t land on. It’s especially bad in the third level, since a lot of what would be safe ground is cannons instead, and you fall straight through them. Even levels one and two could use a bit more ground though. Another helpful thing would be more “checkpoints” like the frog area in level one. One or maybe two per level would be good. 2. The difficulty curve is very weird. The tutorial section before the frog in level one should be longer and there needs to be a level between levels two and three. Level three is much harder than the other two; it took me 4 hours when the other two combined only took me around 2 hours. It’s longer and has some really tricky sections with long falls below them (that one bomb that you have to hit twice and is surrounded by cannonballs took me quite a while to get past). The boss is also really difficult, it took me over an hour compared to the like 5-10 minutes the other two took. 3. This is a small nitpick, but maybe put the ads after you land instead of right when you get hit. The suspense of not knowing whether you’re going to fall like 5 blocks or back to the start of the level kills me. 4. There’s this one section in level three that becomes a checkpoint if you explode the right blocks but isn’t if you accidentally break the wrong ones (the thick wall that needs two explosions to break through). I would pick a side, either make it an actual checkpoint by adding a solid block or prevent it from ever being used as a checkpoint by making the gap smaller. Also release level 4 ASAP please :)

very fun, level 2 is too difficult

I love this game, but I give up. there's this "race" section at the end of the second level, and I've spent maybe three hours on this one section. The game punishes you enough already that it is nearly impossible to save yourself if you make a mistake in any section of this, so you end up rushing and making more mistakes. I played this section thinking that I had to be missing something. I was actually shocked to see the little ghost I'm racing speed up to be ahead of me. I was assuming that we'd each have our own paces like how platformer game races usually work, but this is not the case. this game is not fun if you have to play the same thing over and over for hours, and I know it's a rage game, but it feels like the game is cheating. sorry, brothers